Rainfall update
Recent rainfall station totals
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About these data, maps and tables
- Maps and tables use real-time rainfall data, and limited quality control has been performed
- Some stations occasionally report multi-day accumulations, which may show up as high daily, weekly or month-to-date totals.
- Daily data are updated at and available around .
- Weekly data are updated at AEDT each day and available around .
- Monthly data are published around on the last day each month, then updated after midnight on the 2nd, 3rd and 22nd of the following month.
- Month periods use monthly totals, and have additional information, including 'Years of data', 'Mean' and 'Percentile' rainfall for the selected period. Percentiles are calculated for stations with at least 20 years of data; newer stations show N/A in map popups and -1.00 in the table view. Percentiles are expressed as a number out of 100. The percentile refers to the ranking of a particular value relative to all of the values for that site.
- Elevation is listed as -999 in the table when not available
- In the tables, select Station number to open rainfall table, or elsewhere in row to show on map
- Popups from the map, and Station numbers in the table, link to more rainfall information. In the tables, periods with daily data link to the latest year of daily rainfall values, and month periods link to the full station history of monthly data.
- More about rainfall data
Weekly highlights
Tropical lows produced heavy rainfall across areas of northern and eastern Australia
- A monsoon trough, several tropical lows and troughs brought showers, rain and thunderstorms, some severe, across northern Australia.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 50 to 300 mm, with locally higher falls, were recorded across broad northern areas of Western Australia, the Top End of the Northern Territory and much of northern and eastern Queensland.
- A trough along most of the eastern states with moist, unstable conditions led to scattered showers and isolated storms, some severe, across parts of the east.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 25 to 100 mm and locally higher were recorded across eastern New South Wales, parts of northern Victoria and Queensland's interior.
- There is ongoing minor to major flooding across much of Queensland and the Top End of the Northern Territory.
- The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 415.2 mm at Whyanbeel Valley in Queensland.
- The highest daily total (at a Bureau gauge) was 276.0 mm at Darr Creek Al in Queensland in the 24 hours to 9 am on 9 March.
Product code: IDCKGRWAR0
History
Previous rainfall reports
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